Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile M. Cioran

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Emile M. Cioran

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.

Emile M. Cioran

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Emile M. Cioran

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Emile M. Cioran

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Emile M. Cioran

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

Emile M. Cioran

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

Ellen Glasgow

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

Epictetus

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

Epictetus

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Epictetus

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

Epictetus

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

Epicurus

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Epicurus

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Epicurus

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

Epicurus

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

Epicurus

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Epicurus

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

Epicurus

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Epicurus

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Epicurus

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Epicurus

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Epicurus

Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

Epicurus

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Epicurus

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Epictetus

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

Epictetus

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

Epictetus

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

Epictetus

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Epictetus

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Epictetus

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Epictetus

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.